Associations of HIV stigmatising beliefs, risk behaviours, and safer practices
| Having had an episode of STD | Having had multiple sex partners | Having had commercial sex | Condom use | Intention to receive HIV test | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR† | 95% CI‡ | OR | 95%CI | OR | 95% CI | OR | 95% CI | OR | 95% CI | ||
| *Having stigmatising beliefs v none. | |||||||||||
| †Odds ratio. | |||||||||||
| ‡95% confidence interval. | |||||||||||
| Unadjusted | |||||||||||
| Stigmatising beliefs* | 2.32 | 1.70 to 3.16 | 1.75 | 1.20 to 2.54 | 1.94 | 1.39 to 2.71 | 0.60 | 0.47 to 0.76 | 0.64 | 0.54 to 0.77 | |
| Multiple logistic regression | |||||||||||
| Stigmatising beliefs | |||||||||||
| 1 v 0 | 1.71 | 1.14 to 2.58 | 0.84 | 0.49 to 1.45 | 1.38 | 0.88 to 2.16 | 0.71 | 0.50 to 0.98 | 0.82 | 0.64 to 1.06 | |
| 2 v 0 | 2.00 | 1.33 to 3.03 | 1.58 | 0.96 to 2.60 | 1.73 | 1.11 to 2.71 | 0.91 | 0.65 to 1.28 | 0.64 | 0.50 to 0.83 | |
| 3 or 4 v 0 | 1.84 | 1.20 to 2.82 | 2.01 | 1.21 to 3.32 | 1.99 | 1.27 to 3.12 | 0.65 | 0.45 to 0.96 | 0.52 | 0.40 to 0.68 | |
| Goodness of fit test | χ2 = 9.16, p = 0.33 | χ2 = 9.19, p = 0.33 | χ2 = 7.58, p = 0.48 | χ2 = 8.16, p = 0.42 | χ2 = 5.88, p = 0.66 | ||||||